Published: Aug 30, 2017, 9:56 am • Updated: Aug 30, 2017, 10:27 am By Ivan Moreno, The Associated Press GREEN BAY, Wis. — Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday called drug overdose deaths “the top lethal issue” in the U.S. and urged law enforcement and social workers to “create and foster a culture that’s hostile […]
Published: Feb 19, 2018, 2:43 pm • Updated: Feb 19, 2018, 2:44 pm By The Associated Press ELKO, Nev. (AP) — A city in northern Nevada has approved an ordinance prohibiting recreational and medical marijuana businesses within city limits. The Elko Daily Free Press reports the Elko City Council adopted the measure last week after […]
By Bart Schaneman DENVER — New mandatory marijuana pesticide testing in Colorado is putting a financial squeeze on local cultivators to the tune of thousands of dollars in increased costs. The added expense is the latest financial blow to hit the state’s cultivators, which are already struggling with falling wholesale prices and a glut of […]
Published: Oct 2, 2017, 9:10 am • Updated: Oct 2, 2017, 11:00 am By Michael R. Blood, The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Scientists. Tax collectors. Typists. Analysts. Lawyers. And more scientists. Recreational marijuana use becomes legal in California in 2018, and one of the things to blossom in the emerging industry isn’t green and […]
Published: Mar 12, 2018, 2:35 pm • Updated: Mar 12, 2018, 4:17 pm By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Legislation that would have legalized CBD in Indiana now is a bill to relax gun restrictions. Indiana state lawmakers on Monday enacted a “strip and replace” procedure on House Bill 1214, replacing provisions to regulate the […]
Since its founding in 2010, Organa Brands’ “maniacal focus on market expansion” has landed its marijuana edibles, vape cartridges, dab tools, distillates and beverages in 11 states and three countries. The company announced Monday it will enter its next stage of evolution — transforming from a North American cannabis powerhouse to a global behemoth — […]
Published: Aug 16, 2017, 8:39 am • Updated: Aug 16, 2017, 1:39 pm By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian California government, financial and marijuana business leaders met last week in a far-from-resolved debate over whether a state-run bank could be the solution to the cannabis industry’s banking problem. Supporters argued during a Los Angeles gathering […]
Published: Sep 25, 2017, 9:11 am • Updated: Sep 25, 2017, 9:59 am By John Fryar, Times Call Longmont would lift its years-old pot-shops ban and allow up to four businesses to sell marijuana and marijuana products, under an ordinance up for an initial City Council vote on Tuesday night. The ordinance, drafted by the […]
Published: Sep 6, 2017, 6:14 pm • Updated: Sep 6, 2017, 6:18 pm By Bob Salsberg, The Associated Press BOSTON –The state’s top marijuana regulator pledged Wednesday to implement Massachusetts’ recreational cannabis law and do his best to meet an ambitious timetable for licensing and opening retail stores in the state, but acknowledged the task […]
Published: Jan 31, 2018, 8:04 am • Updated: Jan 31, 2018, 2:42 pm By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Hydroponics products now account for more than one-third of Scotts Miracle-Gro’s sales, but the lawn-and-garden company’s foray into the ancillary wings of the volatile legal cannabis industry has been choppy as of late. The hydroponics sector’s […]